This review aims to update the main aspects of aflatoxin production, occurrence and
incidence in selected countries, and associated aflatoxicosis outbreaks. Means to reduce …

The fumonisins producing fungi, Fusarium spp., are ubiquitous in nature and contaminate
several food matrices that pose detrimental health hazards on humans as well as on …

Fusarium diseases of small grain cereals and maize cause significant yield losses
worldwide. Fusarium infections result in reduced grain yield and contamination with …

Mycotoxins represent an assorted range of secondary fungal metabolites that extensively
occur in numerous food and feed ingredients at any stage during pre-and post-harvest …

In June 2016, an outbreak of an unknown disease was reported to affect clusters of families
in two regions of the central part of Tanzania. A rapid epidemiological survey was conducted …

Mycotoxins are toxic secondary metabolites produced by fungi belongs to the genera
Aspergillus, Fusarium and Penicillium that are capable of contaminating different types of …

Mycotoxins contamination in cereal‐based food is ubiquitous according to systematic review
of the scientific documentation of worldwide mycotoxin contamination in cereal and their …

Many studies have reported the occurrence of mycotoxin in human foods and animal feeds
in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Aflatoxins, ochratoxins, fumonisins, and zearalenone are …

Background Mycotoxins are secondary metabolites produced by fungal species that
colonize cereal crops and, consequently, contaminate them with these toxic compounds …

Type B trichothecenes (deoxynivalenol, nivalenol, 3-acetyldeoxynivalenol, 15-
acetyldeoxynivalenol) and deoxynivalenol-3-glucoside (DON-3G) are secondary toxic …